Website Improvements!
Deceased Online is delighted to announce a range of improvements to the website, and to bring a new type of cemetery record to our database
Researching gets easier!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
We have added a comprehensive list of the questions we are most frequently asked by users, with answers to help you use the site better, and hints and tips to improve your searching. These are accessible from the new "Help/FAQs" top menu item. When you click the "Contact us" link on the bottom menu bar, you will be directed to the FAQs page first; but if you can't find an answer there, or you want to contact us for any other reason, you always have the option to email us.
Improved Search Results page
We have introduced several new features here:
You can now drop down a list of similar sounding surnames to select from.
You can now change the order in which results are displayed: Name of Deceased or Burial/Cremation Date. We are hoping to add further options soon.
You can now select the number of results to be displayed per page.
The Next/Previous page handling at the bottom of the page has been improved.
More explanation and examples
On the Burial/Cremation Register Summary page, against each type of further information available (register scan, computer record, grave details, photo, map) we've added an "about..." link. Click on this to display a page describing just what you can expect with this record type, giving you all the information you need before making a purchase.
Re-viewing period extended
The period during which you can view documents after initially purchasing access to them has been extended from 28 days to 6 months!
Collections - a new type of data and a new way of searching!
Deceased Online is delighted to announce that the website is now able to host a completely new type of data -- collections. These are what they say, collections of records, but ones that don't fit into our usual method of searching, because they are not necessarily indexable in the same way, and are sometimes best searched by browsing.
Collections are primarily offered to Deceased Online by independent parties (not burial or cremation authorities) such as researchers compiling, photographing and/or transcribing lists of old records, or cemetery memorials for example. Access to such collections may be purely by purchasing the whole collection and browsing; but in some cases searching by deceased's name and date is also available.
As our first such contributor we are delighted to welcome Scottish Monumental Inscriptions , who are initially putting onto Deceased Online all of their 90,000 headstone and memorial photographs and searchable transcriptions. These date from 1566 and are from 150 cemeteries across Scotland.
For more details see the Help page entry on Collections under Searching, or click here.
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